Railway-crossing.



No. 648,880. Paten tod May I, moo. R. PRICE-WILLIAMS.

RAILWAY BOSSING. (Application flied m 17, 1897.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

RICHARD PRICE-WILLIAMS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD PRITCHARD MARTIN, OF DOWLAIS, ENGLAND.

RAILWAY-CROSSING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,880, dated May 1, 1900.

Application filed May 1'7, 1897. Serial No. 636,933. (No model.) V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD PRICE-WIL- LIAMS, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain,

residing at No. 32 Victoria street, Westminster, London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway- Crossings, of which the following is a specification.

In my British Patent No. 2,148 of-1869 is shown a double rail split at one end and connected at this end with rails of the main and the crossing line and at the other end with a main-line rail, the double rail having a groove formed in it and being combined with crossing rails terminating in wings on their inner sides. I did not at that time, however, contemplate a guard-rail in which one end was split and formed with a guard branch and another branch connected with the main or cross track and having a groove at the junction of the two branches. In my aforesaid patent is shown a guard-rail made solid or unsplit and having one end laid adjacent to a bent rail that has a groove formed in it for the passage of the flange of the wheel. The outer end of the guard-rail terminates abruptly without being joined or connected with another rail, and the inner end lies inside the grooved rail and terminates abruptly in an unreduced end.

According to my present invention I employ split rails like those in my before-mentioned British patent connected with the rails of the main and cross tracks, and I also employ guard-rails, each of which is split at one end, forming two branches, one of which connects with a rail of the branch track, while the other is bent or curved and forms a guard therefor. This latter branch connects with the solid part of the guard-rail, its inner surface being parallel with or forming a smooth continuation of the inner surface of the solid portion of the guard-rail. The rail is grooved between the inner ends of the branches for the passage of the flanges of the wheels. This construction enables me to dispense with some of the securing devices heretofore employed for attaching together the two parts of the guard-rails shown in my before-mentioned patent, and I avoidthe abrupt tenni 5o nation of the inner end of the inside guardrail. I also avoid the awkward presence of three orimore projections at the point where the wheels cross the groove in the guard-rail.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of an obtuse-angled crossing constructed in accordance with my invention; and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are sections to a larger scale on the lines 2 2,

3 3, and at 4 of Fig. l.

a a are the ordinary rails of the main line, and b 1) those of the branch line. 0 c and d d are the double rails, c c and d d being their split portions and 0 0 and d d grooves which are formed in them. These parts j ustmentioned are similar to those shown in my before-mentioned British patent.

d d are the guard-rails. Each of the rails is wide throughout a portion of its length, the opposite end being split and bent into V shape, the groove (1 being arranged at the inner end of the bifurcation to enable the wheels to readily pass, The rails d are bent or curved inwardly at opposite ends, as indicated in Fig. 1.

It will be observed that the inner surface of the solid portion of the guard-rail forms a continuation of the inner surface of the branch at of this rail. There are no joints and no abrupt ends anywhere between the opposite ends of the inner-surface of the guard-rail. 8o

There are no parts to become dislocated or to present obstructions. The rails a and b are relatively narrow as compared with the rails c and d. They are arranged at an angle to each other at the crossing and are joined in well-known ways to the relatively-wide rails c and d. The rail 0 is about twice as wide as rail a throughout a portion of its length and is slotted at one end, the two halves being spread apart into V shape to form two branches. The groove 0 in each rail crosses one of the branches to permit the flanges of the wheel to readily pass across the main .tracks.

I claim as my invention- The combination with the rails of the main and crossing lines of the double rails, 0, each of which is connected at one end with a rail of the mainline, and each of which is split at one end and has the two branches of the split of the guard-rail joining without break and portion connected with rails of the main and forming a continuation of the inner surface of crossing lines; and guard-rails, each of which the solid, unspiit portion of the guard-rail.

is split and has two branches, one of which RICHARD PRICE-WILLIAMS. 5 is connected with a rail of the crossing line Witnesses:

andthe other of which is bentto form a guard, C. ARGLES,

the inner surface of the last-mentioned branch JAS. GRIFFITHS. 

